Resources for Playwrights

Resources

These links are to sites that can be very beneficial to playwrights for a variety of reasons. They are not websites that a playwright can submit a play to.

Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights
ALAP is a support and service organization dedicated to addressing the professional needs of the Los Angeles playwriting community.  

Doollee.com
The free online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays. An excellent not-just British site.

Drama Workshop
Do you have a play or screenplay lurking inside your creative mind?  The Drama Workshop is a fun group for aspiring play and screenwriters 

The Dramatists Guild of America
The professional association of playwrights, composers and lyricists.

First Writer.com
Every writer's indispensable Internet resource. This site aims to provide you with all the information you need as you progress in your writing career.  

Insight for Playwrights
Monthly marketing newsletter with submission information for theatres, playwriting contests, workshops, residencies, and other development programs for dramatic writers.  

International Centre for Women Playwrights
Dedicated to the support of women playwrights around the world.

Playwright Advice Page
Getting published (Or, The Play MUST Go On!). What will a publisher do for you?
 

The Playwrights' Center
Theater begins here for the playwright. Job postings, playlabs etc.

Playwrights on the Web
If you're a playwright it offers a free and unique way to showcase and disseminate your work.

Playwriting 101
Playwriting tutorial written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf, whose plays have been produced in more than 25 states and on three continents.  

StoryFoundry.com
New Playwrights. New Plays. There are currently 1334 plays and 157 playwrights listed on the StoryFoundry.

TheatreUSA.com - Create in Writing
Playwright's resources, Organizations and Education.

Writers Write
The Internet Writing Journal. You've Finished Writing the Play: Now What? 

Submissions

The sites below are places where a playwright can actually submit a play.

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 BareBones Theatre Group
 BBTG accepts new full length plays for consideration in our main stage season each year.

ChristmasPlays.com
If you have written a play that you would like to post on this site, please email a copy of it.

Dixon Place
Non-profit organization founded in 1986 to provide a space for literary and performing artists to create and develop new works.   

Playscripts, Inc.
Selects a wide variety of new plays for publication: short plays and full-length plays; comedies, dramas, and plays that defy genre.

Playwrights' Center of SF
Don't miss these Playwright Opportunities and web resources in the San Francisco area.  

 The Playwrights' Cooperative
Welcome to a new concept in Theatre Publishing - a publishing company that is owned and managed by writers.  

Witness Theatre
Every year, Witness goes all out to produce a full-length play.
Show us what you've got.

Playwrights

We are happy to provide links to the websites of all you playwrights out there. Please use our Submit a Link page or email us at info@sheebles.com to be included in our growing list!

Grady Smith
The personal web page of an emerging author/playwright.

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